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>> imagine riding one of the hottest vehicles on the road. oscar-mayer giving fans a chance to lease the weinermobile. just tweet why you think you should get to drive it. here's shep. >> thanks. we could find out today where l a judge will let the familiar live of a braindead pregnant woman take her off life support. this woman is dead but still on life support. it's also possie the judge will agree with hospital officials officials who say they have to keep the woman alive. >> colorado and washington already gone green. but some analysts say the attorney general, eric holder, just did something that could mean national changes for marijuana are on the horizon. what sort of changes you might ask? let's get to it. >> friday. first from the fox news deck this afternoon, new warning to
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team u.s.a. ahead of the winter olympics. the warning is, keep your red, white and blue under wraps when not competing. if you're outside olympic village, wear something else. the state department confirms olympic officials are telling american athlete their uniform could mak them targets. this week designers unveiled the official team u.s.a. form, a clear tribute to the american flag. the olympics two weeks from today in sochi, russia, city near that country's hotbed of terrorism. extremist groups have prom mickeded to a -- promised to attack. the olympic torch is right now in the site of two major bombings in the past decade. monday the flame is sit to go through the city where the suspects in the boston marathon bombings lived before they came to the united states. a state department official says warning to athletes about their unforms is not unusual. but one athlete who was in the
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last winter olympicics said this is a first for him. let's bring in dara torrez. the only american swimmer to compete in five olympics. her first in 1984, in the games in l.a. she had already set an american record at 15 years old, a record she went on to break herself 25 years later. she became the oldest swimmer to compete in beijing in 2008. in all she has racked up 12 olympic medals, four gold, for team u.s.a. she is live in boston. it's nice to meet you. how are you? >> nice to met you, too. i'm cold but good. >> it's cold. it's going to get colder, especially in boston. i read that you had some concerns back in 1980, but how much since then? does this seem unusual to you? >> actually it was 1988 in seoul korea, the north and south were fighting, and they said if we left the village, don't wear
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anything american and also win we would leave there would be a guy with a machete or rifle that would escort us,there was a lot of concern back there. >> what do you make of concerns we hear not sochi? >> well, i mean, it's disconcerting. you don't want sochi to turn into munich in 1972. it's tough. the athletes are there to concentrate on their event and to have all this other stuff happening with safety concerns, it's very disconcert. >> what are you telling your family? >> well, for me personally, if i was going, i would tell my family not to go because you want to worry abouttask at hand and not worrying is my family safe? i think the athletes for the most part are safe. that's where all the safety lies, is within that 1500-mile radius called the olympic safety zone, and so i really believe
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that for most athletes it's probably better not have the families come so you don't have to worry about it. don't want to worry about that when you're competing. >> a big article on the cover of the "new york time" about vladimir putin and all that he has done surrounding getting the games to sochi. do you wonder, who the hell thought this was a good idea? >> you know, it's not necessarily that. i think it's no matter where you have olympic games, it's a big target, a big event, the biggest competition every four years for winter athletes and summer athlete is, and it just seems like terrorists like to target big events, and so i mean being that it's russia, probably is a little more -- just a place that i think that they're going to target but i would say that it happens at a lot of olympic games, safety concerns. >> itself can happen anytime, near. what do you think of team
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u.s.a.'s chances here? >> i think they have a great chance. i went and spoke to the olympic women's hockey team and had a great time speaking to them, and they seem very pumped up. just came back and beat canada a few weeks ago, i think it's going to be a lot of fun. all the competitions will be great. we have tremendous athletes and if we can focus on the athletes and not global resentment towards others everything would be okay. >> that would make things better >> it would. >> how did the women's hockey team feel about the trip? >> they were so pumped. some of them, quarter of them, have been to olympic games before and there's also fresh new faced, and they seem to jazzed and are worried about their athletes -- excuse me -- their families. it's a concern for all the athletes, not so 'much their their safety but they're financially. >> it's a pleasure to meet you. i feel like i know you from patching you all these years on
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tv. you made us proud so many times. thank you so much. >> thank you. nice to meet you, too. >> a judge could soon decide maybe as soon as today whether a brain dead pregnant woman, woman who is dead and being kept alive by machines. that's a fact. not even kind of opinion, and that's the fact. the woman is dead. but their keeping her breathing so that -- because she has a baby in her should she remain on life support against her family's wishes? her family is like, this is sad. she is dead. we need to pull this. the case has sparked a huge debate. the woman's husband says he found her unconscious on the kitchen floor in the middle of the night two days before thanksgiving. he says he woke up because their 14-month-old son was crying. the family is now suing the hospital bulls the doctors have refused to take her off life support. this is in texas. her husband says she told him she would never want machines keeping her alive. and then there's the hospital officials who say state law in texas requires a pregnant woman
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to stay on life support until the fetus is viable. doctors say that's anywhere from 24 to 26 weeks. lawyers for the family say the pregnancy is now at 22 weeks. they also say the fetus is abnormal, and deformed. both sides are due in court in less than one hour. >> casey stiegel is watching this from our texas news room. what can we expect to happen this afternoon? >> she judge is obviously going to be hearing testimony from both sides and going to be looking at medical records, and we understand that then a decision would be made. of course it's entirely possible that he could gather the material, review it, and then make a decision at a later time, but one of the items that will be introduced, hard to read. an affidavit from eric minute wyoming, a letter from a loving husband, telling the court he has come to grips with his wife's death and reads in part, and i'm quoting, her limbs have become so stiff and rigid due to
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her deteriorating condition that now, when i move her hands, her bones crack. and her legs are nothing more than dead weight. and now the man, who helped write this legislation that states life support can not be withdrawn from a pregnant patient, is speaking out, saying he thinks the hospital is misinterpreting it here. >> i don't know of anyone who has worked on that law or with that law who actually thinks that it applies to people who are braindead or dead according to any criteria. >> court records show that the fetus is so badly deformed that doctors cannot tell if it is a girl or a boy. something that a mother usually knows around 18 weeks. remember, again, she is at 22 here. >> you wonder how these people sleep at night, casey. >> you know, it's just heartbreaking, and it's so frustrating on the same side because a lot of people have
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shown their support, and a lot of people are criticizing this family. some people have taken to social media and called this poor husband a murderer. protesters have shown up outside john peter smith hospital in fort worth where this is happening. those pro life advocates say, just wait a few more weeks and try to deliver the baby because they argue miracles happen every single day. listen. >> i think if they think become it they would be very grateful to have their baby. >> we should tell you this there have also been people outside the hospital who support this man and arguably the extremely difficult decision he is forced to make here, shepard. >> casey in dallas. wow. it's so cold across part of the country that shifts normally breaking ice in the arctic are hard at work just north of america's biggest city. we'll find out how long this bitter cold will last.
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i've lived here 15 years. never had a cold spell like this, ever. ever. never seen anything like this. awful. spring, hello, come visit.
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the deep freeze is still holding strong across many states here in the united states, where temperatures are not budging from the single digits and much below. now the arctic blast has reached so far south it's turned parts of texas into an ice box. folks in several major cities are feeling the freeze today,
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including houston, and galveston. icy conditions forced officials in the state's largest school district to cancel classes for hundreds of thousands of kids. freezing rain and light snow around the dallas-fort worth area has grounded flights. if you're looking to escape the cold, look up north in alaska. temperatures in anchorage today are above freezing, and in some parts of the state of alaska conditions are reportedly 30 degrees warmer than normal. rick is here with all of the weather weirdness. i'm seeing it minus numbers for new york as lows, and all up and down the east coast next week. >> monday into tuesday is a lot colder than what we're seeing right now across the eastern part of the country. when you have that cold of weather someplace you have to have the warmer weather someplace else and that's across the west and areas like alaska. unfortunately.
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that high pressure out across the west is going to continue there, by the way, and keep the drought conditions in towards california, keep the fire threat high and keep temperatures into the 80s for everybody. you might say that's nice. but you need the rain desperately. and this pattern across the east with clippers rotating down, will continue to happen. no sign of that breaking up. looks like even into a week and a half, possibly the next two weeks, and behind each one you get another shot of cold air, and a little bit of snow. snowfall totals from any individual clipper is not that big, but you get four or five of the clippers and you end witch a foot of snow. and with the low temperatures, doesn't melt. in new york, 34 the warm day on monday. and next tuesday and wednesday across the eastern seaboard, looks to be the coldest one. >> i saw a four, two, and a minus one as lows. >> minus one likely monday tight, tuesday night, and that also means to the north, we'll deal with temperatures in the
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minus 25ish range. >> i think i'll go to oxford. >> cold in the south, too. >> but not as cold. the arctic blast rick is talking about hays frozen lakes and rivers, including the hudson river. the ice does not stop the ships and vessels moving up the hudson, thanks to the coast guard. i hear the ice breakers are at work in the hudson. >> when they're working hard, shepard, since 1936 they've been doing this, facilitating the transport of all the petroleum and dry bulk products, especially in the northeast, major thoroughfare. and today fox news goss a sneak peek how it's done with solid ice. >> when you get to help a mariner who is stuck or maybe even in danger, that's kind of the best feeling, when you're doing ice breaking.
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>> crunch, crunch, can you hear it? >> i hear it. >> 75% of all the heating oil used in this country is imported through this area, new england, new york, and new jersey, and 90% is delivered right through this ice. but there's also another purpose to this painstaking, and we learned today. security, including at neighboring ports and they all keep an eye on the water to make sure that we're safe, these ice cutters are true experts. their working also be life saving because they have trained personnel keeping an eye for vessels that might be in distress. can you imagine being in the ice in these temperatures? >> i can barely imagine being outside. thank you. good stuff. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we all know weed is now legal in colorado. but some pot vendors say they are scared for their safety because they're forced to conduct their transactions in cash. making their shops a real target for robbers. now the attorney general eric
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there are massive potentially dangerous waves crashing right now off the west coast of the united states, and dozen of surfers are chasing after them. these are dangerous only if you get in them, bill the -- with the way. part of an annual big wave surfing contest at a spot called mavericks in northern california. the images are iral shots from earlier today, this says. here's a look at some of the competitors in action an hour ago. fans qualify it the super bowl of surfing. officials there say the conditions are some of the best they've seen in decades. in fact the popular surf forecasting site,
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surfline.com, lists todays conditions as, quote, good to epic, with some waves topping 40 feet. this comes just two days after huge ocean swells slammed hawai'i at oahu's northern show, and in half moon bay, 40 minutes south of san francisco. the size of the wave is is not the only thing dangerous. right now the water is cold. temperatures in the low 50s. and what is more the spot is located inside the so-called red triangle, an area in the pacific ocean packed with great white sharks. >> if you're in the marijuana business you might soon have a safer place to keep your money, the obama administration will soon roll out regulations that allow banks to do business with legal marijuana sellers. federal law lists cannabis has an i illegal narcotic if
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federally insured banks process money from pot sales they could face drug racketeer charges so the banks offer refuse marijuana businesses to open accounts. bins owners say that forces them to operate completely in cash with a constant fear of getting robbed. one guy said he hired an armored car service to move his money. seems the weed is moving. and he sprays the cash with fabreeze to keep banks from catching on and dropping it. in other words the money starts to smell like the product. some say they could even keep their cash in storage lockers, walter white style. some political analysts say the new banking rules could be the start of a major federal policy hit -- shift when it comes marijuana. drew, seem to remember about 12 years ago, you and i having a conversation about we were having terrible economic problems and the word was, why don't they just tax the weed? >> hey, that's what everybody is saying, and this may be the
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beginning, slow beginning, of a realization that legalization this only front choice. >> difficult to tell a business owner, a legal business owner in colorado, you don't have the same opportunities that ooh every other legal business owner has, you can't work through the banking system. that was untenable for the government. >> here's the quagmire. you are legally earning money in your state, but you worry that if you go to the bank and if there's any deposit made in excess of $10,000 you have to report commit you say it comes from my marijuana business. the bank is going to say, hold on. we can't lander this because federally, it's illegal so it presented a quagmire to the banks and looks like attorney general holder is going to issue a memorandum, not as to the issue of the legalization of marijuana but more or less a pass to the banks saying, take
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the money and we're not coming after you. >> that would be only in these particular instances, only in states where it's legal, you wouldn't be able to do that, say in alabama or something. >> you would not be able to do that in those states, but, again, as long as it's out there it does create a sense of confusion, and those people moving for the reformation of marijuana laws are clearly going to argue, listen, our attorney general is making allowances to the banks for what would otherwise be money laundering. let's go ahead and come to terms with the fact this is an industry with might all benefit from its regulation. >> something has to give because you can't have people doing things that are legal in colorado that are illegal in the united states. it's still part of the united states and this is untenable long term. there's no way. >> absolutely. one thing we try to maintain in the federal system is consistency. we see it in what we call the federal sentencing guidelines. we see it in what we call the bail reform act.
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bail reform act. weñ we want you to get sentenced the same way in a cocaine case in hawai'i than you would in maine. weans you to get the same type of bail if you're arrested federally in montana that you would get in utah. so, if we want consistency in ther federal criminal justice system, then we have to come to terms with this narcotic that a wave seems to be indicating ear the midinnally or all out is becoming legalized in different jurisdictions. >> all right, it's nice to see you. have a great weekend in atlanta. >> absolutely, man, it's freezing. >> come on north, drew. just shut up, already, see you later. then there's virginia. good lord. if you have not read up on this thing, you need to. the former virginia republican governor, bob mcdonnell, and his wife in court today facing charges they accepted illegal gifts. by the wheelbarrow full, and the truckload, but there is word we may never have known about the
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details had governor mcdouble just accepted a plea deal. the former governor of virginia could have made sure his wife never faced a day in jail, never faced prosecution of any kind, and instead he rolling the dice. we are live at the courthouse with the extraordinary details of this case. we're keeping a close eye on the dow. we're watching it in this way. it is just crashing. down 278.8, why is it down? i don't know. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of.
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fox report now and here headlines from the fox news deck. three people died in yesterday's massive traffic pileup outside chicago, including a husband and wife in their 60s, according to investigators on scene. some 40 vehicles got caught up in the wreck. it injured more than 20 other people. wow. the state police say the blinding snow may have triggered that initial crash. >> the syrian government and
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opposition groups will meet face-to-face for the first time tomorrow, or they're scheduled to according to a spokesman for the rebels. they had backed out of the planned talks, claiming the two side did not have enough common ground year the very special funeral procession for a motorcycle buff in the netherlandss. his dad loved the bike but his epps help si prevented him driving one so his family arranged to take him on a last ride on a 1948 harley davidson.
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>> breaking news. just getting word out of south carolina state university, school officials say there's been a shooting on campus. the school twitter account is up and running and we have it over here. this just happened. what are you seeing? >> i'm seeing it happened inside a dormitory. the ap just tweeted that out but i don't have that. i have the school's official twitter said that university
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police have confirmed there's been a shooting on campus and the person who was shot was also a student. >> you say a dorm room or building. >> dormitory building, and police have not yet apprehend the suspect but are in pursuit of the person they believe to be the perpetrator, and they're currently on lockdown as police search for the suspect. >> so they're searching for a suspect. thank you. and they are following this guy, i guess at the moment. who had locations? >> web site. >> you got a web site? >> yes. this is the sc state university web site. >> where is south carolina state? >> move down to that. see where that is. about a half an hour outside of columbia? >> not too far from columbia. >> i'm told the -- the only thing i've been able to get is there's a lot of crime activity in this area. i'm not saying on the campus, but crime is no stranger to the
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area. >> orangeburg, so one person shot. we don't know condition. police say they're following or pursuing, at least, one suspect. they have reason to believe there's still potential trouble so the campus is on lockdown. that's south carolina state university, orangeburg, says. the incredible story of virginia's former governor, and his wife. today they pleaded not guilty, after the governor turned down a deal with prosecutors that would have kept some possibly embeer wassing details private and saved his wife jeopardy. the deal would have spared the former republican governor book mcdonnell most of the charges he is facing and would have let his wife walk completely off the hook. it also would have kept secret the details in a private federal indictment which outlines the gifts they're accused of accepting.
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prosecutors say the gifts cam from the head of a vitamin supplement company, and in exchange, the feds say that mcdonnell helped promote his products. and all of the evidence seems to suggest on the surface at this point that is what happened. of course all this comes from prosecutors. there's more to the story. according to the inindictment the gifts include $15,000 to cater the wedding of the couple's daughter. about $20,000 in designer duds. and close to five grand spent during a single round of golf. a silver rolex a watch which was requested, inscribed and delivered within 24 hours. the inscription, 71st governor of virginia. the indictment goes on to list trips on a private jet, multimillion dollar mansion to bow record foe the weekend, mansion that came with a ferrari for the good to drive during his stay. the list goes on from there it is long and detailed and must be very embarrassing. governor mcdonnell says he never did anything illegal.
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analysts once called him a risingun start who might -- republican star who might one day run for president. carl, what do we know about when this is going to start? >> the trial is set now for july 28th. today the prosecutors said they expected it would take them two weeks to make their case. and the former governor and first lady's defense attorneys say that it would take them bat week to put forth his defense. it's going to be complicated. prosecutors have to prove that there was intent on the governor's behalf to personally profit in exchange for access to government utilities, whether that was promoting the companies in question, the owner of which was a campaign donor to mr. mcdonnell's campaign. $150,000 of cash and various different goods and benefit. not an easy case to make but virginia is known for very fast trials and for each of the 14 charges, the maximum sentence is
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20 years for 12 of those charges and two of those charges carry potential sentences up to 30 years. literally hundreds of years on the line for the mcdonnells. they say they are not guilty and plan to fight it. the judge said that neither side should talk about this publicly or he would throw them in jail for trying the case in the court of public opinion instead of at its bench. >> carl, thank you very much. aimis -- amy stoddard is here. i've one watching the coverage of this in other places and it's astounding what these people have accepted, especially given this is the one time attorney general of the state. it's not as if he can plead, i didn't know what i was doing. >> that's exactly right. i think from the choice that governor -- former governor mcdonnell made to forego his plea option to plead guilty to a felony and have, as you mentioned, his wife exonerated,
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all the secrets kept, i think he really thinks he is going to get away with this. he claimed all along that virginia's ethics laws are too murky and loose and in need of clarification for him to be guilty of anything. but it is very, very clear that anyone in politics at that level, particularly a former attorney general, would know what they were doing when they were involved in any kind of effort to persuade a businessman he would see an audience that would lead to eventually potentially grant money from colleges and universities in virginia, that would help promote his product, and that is what the governor knew his wife was doing and that's what the governor helped to do as well. >> it's astounding what all this governor has gotten himself in the middle of. the first time maybe many of our viewers knew them when he gave the republican response to the state of the union, and he was great. >> i remember that night. >> everybody dish think we were working together that night on that state of the union and everybody was like, wow, that was incredible.
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then all of a sudden he has his mind in the middle of women's preproductive rights and then suddenly taking row electrics and stuff. this is -- rolexs and stuff. this is astounding. >> he has taken very conservative positions in the passion what smart when he ran for governor in 2009 to run on bob for jobs and personal empowerment and the free market and using rhetoric republicans hoped they could win on to get away from social positions and took only about economic policy, and jobs. and he did it so well, his response to the state of the union was so effective everybody thought he was a rising star0. so seeing the timeline of they're behavior and the requests they made, hi knew his star was rising and still engaged in this type of greed. and it's really -- it's quite remarkable, it also starts on page one, and i think anyone who likes to read indictments will be rivetted. even people who are not would find this a page, turner. the very first outreach to johnny williams was a request
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from the newly elected governor or virginia to use his private jet and he had never met him before. >> it wasn't long before he was saying nice things about his products. >> right. >> ab, we'll watch this one. he may be right. i've talked to some legal experts who save the laws are murky in virginia. burt to suggest he didn't know he was on the wrong side of right would be really a stretch. got to go. see you. don't pay too much attention to wall street. it's a bad down. we're down 265 points. it's been a very rough ride. who are you again? >> sandra smith, fox business network. >> my cousin san contract. what's going on? >> bear in mind we have 15% gains in our report. the earnings have been good but not great so no catalyst to keep rallying the market. so they've started to focus on the bad, and everyone is fearing that perhaps the big stock
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market correction is coming, which would be a selloff of 10% or more for the major averages. right now investors running for the exits but the big news, weakness out of china, theirctus contracting, gdp is slow so everybody is saying maybe china is not the story everybody thought it would be. >> maybe china is a new story but a negative story. >> exactly. >> what could stem the tide sneer we need some favorable something. >> a lot coming up and next week is the big fed two-day meeting, concludes on wednesday and the big question is whether they're going to slow the pace of their bond buying program, whether they'll continue the pace of tapering. the big question, will they continue printing money and aiding the stock market which many wall street an lists say it's been artificially propped up by the fed's policy. >> are you shorting? >> i'm not -- no no, come on. >> no, no. >> if some shorted at the
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protesters. are they empty promises? we don't know yet. what we do know is according to officials there, at least two protesters died this week in clashes with the police. this scene is from earlier this morning. here you can see orthodox priests praying about this as they stand between activists and the police lines in central kiev. and amateur video shows protesters trying to take over one government building, and they got mighty darn close it to. it's been absolute chaos for weeks. the fighting boils down to this, really. a battle between east and west, and which culture ukrainians want for their forward. crowds have been protest the government's decision to align with russia rather than europe. the president was starting a deal with russia. the people wanted to deal with europe. but they signed a massive trade deal with the russian government last week. now there's some indication that could all be changing. greg has the latest, live in our
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london newsroom. >> we have been watching another tense night in kiev, and we have been watching protests spread across ukraine for the first time outside of the capitol. we have seen the antigovernment demonstrations over the half dozen cities rocked by these protests, and one important town a government building was taken over and the governor forced to resign inch kiev, allege agricultural ministry building was occupied by activists and protesters throwing molotov cocktail, in addition to those killed, dozens have been 'injured, and forcing the president to make some gesture of reconciliation. a special session of parliament next tuesday could be the setting for change in the government, amnesty for those arrested, but the opposition does not seem to be buying it. one of their leaders tied said they want nothing short hoff the president quitting.
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the protest has turned into a serious challenge for the government, government branded by critics both undemocratic and corrupt in washington, very concerned about the strategic country, secretary of state kerry saying the u.s. would stand by the people of ukraine. our colleagues on the ground say there could be more trouble happening, could be tonight. >> the real fun is across the chunnel from there. the current first lady of france trashed the president's office in a fit of rage after she learn that he was cheating on her. cost more than $4 million. francois is not married to the first lady baud they have been partners for six years. earlier this month, french tabloids announced the president's affair with this woman, movie star. neither of whom have denied the report. the president thought this was
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the perfect opportunity to meet with the pope at the vatican. he did not take questions from reported, strangely. president hollande said last week he would make a statement about his life life before his planned trip to washington next month, and not far from the vatican, bomb went it off outside a french church in rome. police say nobody was hurt and say they don't know if they has anything to do with the visit. >> al qaeda is said to be trying to end some fighting in syria, among some of the rebels. details about the new message from al qaeda and what it could reveal about the base.
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continuing coverage -- breaking news out of south carolina state university. police any say they have four suspects in a shooting on
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campus, and that they know who they are. this comes after somebody shot a student at a dorm on campus. south carolina state university in orangeberg, right now, on lockdown. >> planners of the 9/11 museum have announced they're on pace to open in mid-may. they gave reporters a sneak peek , releasing photos. they installed display boards on the wall and put in place many of the smaller artifacts. museums will charge an adult admission fee of of $24 and will offer free entry on tuesdays and they're relying on private money but they're going after federal funds, which might allow them to lower their fees in the future. >> certainly if we gate contribution of significance from the federal government, we will absolutely utilize that funding to make this museum even more accessible. >> the museum will be deneath the memorial which has been open for more than two years now.
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the museum president says the public will be able to begin reserving tickets starting in march. >> there are signs that the core of al qaeda is determined to join with other extremist fight north america syria. it comes as the united nations is holding peace talks aimed at ending bloodshed in the country. an audio recording, the leader of al qaeda demand militants in syria put their differences aside and unite. keep in mind the white house claims that the terror groups' central leadership is no longer relevant. catherine herridge is in washington with the this. what were we learning. >> an audiotape from the al qaeda leader in pakistan. the leadership has gone to audio versus video because video is more revealing of their location in this message he called on al qaeda followers in syria to put their internal disputes
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aside and join together to overthrow the government. no question that al qaeda has gained a foothold in syria, through isis and with the absence of western military intervention the state department admits extremists followed the lead. >> we sortly know that elements in syria take al qaeda elements in syria take inspiration from zawahri and his language. >> it's not long ago people were concerned the messages were coded but that has been dismissed and this seems that's state department indicates as inspirational or as propaganda for their followers. >> does this give us any insight into the al qaeda leadership? >> well, what it tells us is that zawahri remains engaged and wants to keep the leadership relevant, if he is able to. that said, at that same briefing, the state department
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added he was so far into iraq he couldn't be relevant. >> the only one left, i think he spends at this point probably more time worrying about his own personal security than prop began dark but still, it's interested in putting out this kind of propaganda to remain relevant. >> analyst says they see attempts by the leadership to remain relevant and czeched to affiliates. we have seen that in yemen and libya as well. >> have a good weekend. >> you, too. >> police police say a guy pretended to be famous to get out of paying medical bills. we'll show you the wannabe rock star and the celebrity he claims to be. hang on. s betsy. her long day of pick ups and drop offs begins with arthritis pain... and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard. ♪
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>> rock star wannabe is on the run after he tried to steal the identities of not one but two different musicians so he could skip out on tens of thousands of dollars worth of hospital bills. that's according to police in utah. here's the guy's mug shot.
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he missed a court date this week. cops say between the year 2011 and last february, he went to the same hospital three times, and promised the staffers here, my agent will take care of these bills. no sweat. they say the first time he claimed to be the guitarist from the band rush. unbelievable. the one on the far left. after that he claimed to be the singer david gilmour from pink floyd. he is neither. you can decide whether you see any resemblance. >> on this day in 1979, the legendary british punk band "the clash" released its first sing until the united states called "i fought the law." the cover of a tune from the 1960s. they redid the track using their hard-hitting sound. the clash would later hit the u.s. billboard chart with ground breaking alum, "london calling"
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and hit songs like "rock the kaz kaz kaz beau." today,; the law always wins. dow doing bad things, sorry. >> stocks rocking and finishing at such a low as wall street finishes a horrible week, well into thefully. dow now become below 16,000. the biggest drop in more than two years. off about 4% this year but as we try to do here, put this in perspective, we're still up 15% from this time last year, but it's all that stuff in between that gets a lot of attention, and what's going on right now is getting even more attention. sandra smith on what has really got folks rattled today. >> it's the aggression story out of china 0, lack thereof. a lot of people had hopes and were buying